Pooch's April- More bugs, but this time Vikings too?

Another month down, and more progress to show for it, and yep, there were more bugs. Because of course I painted more bugs!

1. Paint something bought before 2024

Starting with not bugs. I picked up these Vikings nigh on a year ago, and I'm not even sure what game I was planning to use them for. Regardless, when one of the locals suggested we played some Tribal, I took the opportunity to paint up a warband of Vikings ready to play the game.

The miniatures all come from Gripping Beast, and are finished off with the gorgeous shield decals from Little Big Man Studios. Also coincidentally, you can pick up the rules for Tribal from Potbelly Miniatures!

Warlord and Champion with flag

First batch of Viking Warriors

Second batch of Viking Warriors

Third batch of Vikings, this time some Berzerkers!

I also had a few small pieces of terrain, which will help have a cool looking table for the game too. These are all from Renedra Miniatures

Houses with scattered pots

Many fences!

I've already got a game of Tribal scheduled for May!

2. Paint something bought in 2024

It wouldn't be a month of this blog without me posting some Tyranids, would it?

Another big bug, this time a Malceptor

A big brain to cause big psychic damage!

Little flying bugs- great for capturing objectives!

Showing off the wings!

It's a unit of ten, so this is the other five!

I'd say next month will be something different. But you know it's going to be more bugs...

3. Play a game of 40k each month

I didn't just play one game of 40k this month, I played a whole tournament of it!

I took the Tyranids out to our club's Valleycon competition, playing five games over a weekend, and I had a blast! Visually, the Tyranids looked brilliant, and I got a number of really nice comments about them. In terms of their performance in the games, overall they won 3 lost 2, and the two I lost were really poor match ups for me, but I kept my player morale up, and didn't let them affect my enjoyment over the weekend- which was my goal.

I got far too engrossed with the games to take many photos, so here is just two!

An Ultramarine Repulsor getting eaten by a Psychophage.... pity about the Terminators inside it.... 

Maulerfiend doing mauling. Fiendishly.

I'm really enjoying my 40k resurgence, I might need to find a different style to play for May tho!

4. Play a game of not-40k each month

I FINALLY got my 15mm ADLG Celt army out for a game, taking on a work in progress army of Successors.

The Celts.... did a lot of charging. And got some good dice. Including a very rude set of 6's when attacking with chariots into Elephants, which meant that I came out on top. Having spent so much time on them, it was great to get them out on the table and actually play a game with them. Given the rest of the crew has been really enjoying their ADLG, I feel like many more games are in my future!

Chariots vs Pike. The chariots EXPLODED.

Medium Sword vs Cavalry however was more swingy....

And that's it. I know some of what May will bring (and yes, there will be more Bugs), but I'm sure there will be some suprises in there!

Pooch

Pooch's April update

And it's here! My April update! 

Only (checks watch).... nearly three weeks late.

Oops.

At least I got some painting done?

1. Paint a platoon for Flames of War

This month was a productive one for finishing up a bunch of things I needed for Valleycon, our annual club tournament.

My army for the tournament looked like this:

Many, many shermans!

I also added some mud to a few of the things I had already painted!

2. Add something to armies I have already painted

The other nerds and I have been talking a bit about our love for 40k, which is only matched by our disappointment in the current set of rules. So when we managed to have a few games of the much streamlined Boarding Action, it was a total relief to find it was not only fun, but it was also going to have a lot of the same design cues as the upcoming 10th Edition!

So that was naturally enough to make me excited to paint up some more Sororitas, this time the Special Characters Epharael Stern and her Harlequin buddy Kyganil

This solidly cured me of any visions of painting a Harlequin army

But not only that, I have been keeping up with my "One Marvel Crisis Protocol Miniature a month" sub-goal too, this time finishing up Enchantress...

Ghostly green!

3. Finish up a piece of terrain

This month I finished up some more of the awesome 3d printed Stalingrad terrain as a commission.

Pavlov's House

Train Station

4. Play a game a month, that was different to the last month

I eluded to it with the painting I had done, but I brought out the Shermans of the 761st Tank Battalion to our local tournament, Valleycon!

Overall, they were pretty excellent, the Veteran Sherman with a 76mm gun firing HVAP rounds is really good in late war. They did however blow up alot!

The downside list wise was having no infantry, it really cost me in the two games that I lost, so adding some Winter Infantry will definitely be on my future painting table.

Shermans vs Fallschrimjager!

Shermans vs Scottish Rifles

This was a very common occurence in the games....

5. Paint a Hundred Years War French Army for ADLG

The slow progress on this army continues....

Paint one Knight for ADLG

Paint one base for ADLG

Oh no, now there are more peasants!

Perhaps more.......?

Pooch

ValleyCon 2020

So a lazy blog post from me because I spent the weekend running a Team Yankee competition at our annual club event and hanging out with blogger Scotty, while he ran the 40K event. I was going to paint. That didn't happen. I did have some nice food, caught up with a bunch of people and had a ball watching the TY. So, instead, you get a bunch of photos of the armies and models to look at, none of which are mine!

Team Yankee - Army Parade

Blogger McBeth's Brits

Blogger Tank's Israelis

Blogger Scotty's West German Leopard 1s

Russian T64s

Blogger Pelarel's British

An Iraqi-American Alliance

Blogger Pooch's IPM1s 

A Franco-British Alliance

Wargamer on Tour's Czechs

East Germans and Best Army winner

US Marines - Commended Painting

French

Blogger Richard's Russians

Blogger Pooch's US Airborne

Berlin Brigade British

Iranians

Team Yankee Army Parade Highlights

Blogger Pooch's Sheridans and M60s

Blogger McBeth's Chieftans

Blogger Tank's Pereh Missile Tanks

M60s with modelled ERA

Berlin Brigade Chieftans

The Best Army Objectives

Iraqi Hinds

Wargamer on Tour's Frogfoots...Frogfeet....planes. 

Team Yankee - Highlights

Marine Artillery

Les Mirages!! 

Wargamer on Tour's Czechs attacking! 

Blogger Richard's Hinds

Blogger Pooch's A10 Flight

Wargamer on Tour's Airwing

Surrounded! 

Errr....

Chieftans hull down

The West German attack stalls

Iraqi Armour and American Recce

Gazelles and Rolands 

When Pooch's Shillelaghs don't do the business

Tank's Merkava's had this one....for a bit.

Age of Sigmar, DBMM and Warhammer 40K

Tyranid Harridan

Purple Sun of Shyish 

Cadian Leman Russ makes an impossible climb

Classic Imperial Fists

A plague horde overrunning a wrecked Devilfish

Burgundians attack the Poles

Greeks cross the river to attack the Bithynians  

Harlequins vs Adeptus Mechanicus Ironstriders

Clubmate BBs Eldar battling the T-Riptide T'au

Ogors and Skaven battling it out for soup (?)

Hero of the Warhammer World, Gotrek the Slayer, leads the Sigmarines

Swiss Pike

The Greek Shieldwall 

Mounted English Longbowmen

More Swiss Pike

A Lord of Change - and check out that base!! 

The Blue Scribes

Fish Elves on Flying Shark Lizards!

Maybe my favourite pic of the weekend. Clubmate BB deploys an actually flying Flying Wedge! 

Next Time
Tank and I are playing some games at the club next weekend I think. I'll take some photos and run up a batrep of a run in between his Delaque spies and my Cawdor lunatics.